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Thread: Relic and Org need to update their banning policies15 Jun 2023, 12:21 PM Jump back to quoted post15 Jun 2023, 11:04 AMHannibal I know that today you only buy "licenses" instead of an actual copy. I'd be interested if that would actually stand up in court case, e.g. if Steam disappeared or something, since this system effectively works exactly the same way as buying a hard copy and everything in the store also suggests that you "buy the game", not a license to play. But that's another topic, so I'll leave it at that. I don't care what Relic writes in its Eula. Relic being able to revoke the product I bought at any time without compensation or getting any information how I can dispute that, is putting me into a bad spot from the start. It's a system in which they have all the leverage and I don't. I can't just withdraw my money from their account just because they broke their game with a patch or something else that can go wrong. It's a disadvantage of their product and should be counted as their product being lower value. Most people don't care though until they get banned. The majority of bans are rightful (at least I guess/hope so), but there definitely are cases of wrong banning. The better they do their job, the less wrongful banning cases there are, but they will still be there. Relic (or any company for that matter) not providing any realistic course to appeal for a ban further lowers their product value. The current practice of not giving any information might be industry standard, but is inherently anti consumer. I don't see why I should not criticise that system. I don't know what factors exactly lead to Rosbone's ban. I guess him joking about the appearance of Relic employees was the trigger, maybe there's more, maybe not. I have literally no idea, I have never talked to any Relic employee ever. Which also leads to the next question: Should Relic even moderate based on behaviour on other platforms? And which platforms? And in which cases? That not game industry standard, that's trade/industry/whatever company standard. And bare with me but if tomorrow Microsoft release an update that wreck your Windows and all data stored... I have bad news for you. Relic has delivered a game that works and been willing to patch every bug they find and to continue to do so for a certain time as per industry standard. From that your opinion that what they delivered doesn't meet your expectation is on you. Steam gives you 2 hours to refund and I don't know how the code of sale generally apply to this particular kind of service sold but I'm pretty sure that if you buy something, use it and don't like it afterward you're not going to get much from the vendor. Jump back to quoted post15 Jun 2023, 11:10 AMRosbone You make an interesting point that counters what you are trying to do. If you were a company making a game. You dont want to pay someone to sit in a cubicle all day explaining to people why they got banned. You can: A) Explain to people why they got banned and post a date of release. B) Explain nothing and possibly get a legal action started against you. You are right. I should bring legal action against Relic. Then maybe they will see the benefits of just posting some information on the game screen. Which way is more cost effective for Relic? 1) Pay no one and print the answer in game. 2) Pay someone a low salary to answer inquiries all day. 3) Pay legal fees when they get sued. Lawyers are cheap I hear. BAN CODE I was talking to someone who got banned from another product and they stated the company sent you a number. You could then log on and enter your ban code. This would have more details about why you got banned. This would be very easy to implement. PageP could bang this out in under an hour. Since it is Relic, it will take 6 months at least. But it could be done. And they would not have to touch the game/server side code. Sounds like a good option also. Legal fees is part of any company budget. You're seeing this from a Private point of view but from Company perspective it is almost always better to go legal. It doesn't mean only going before a judge and spend hours appealing a case, it means everything said, any documents produced get a certain weight and from that a decision can be made to compromise or follow the legal path. Anyway the way you speak of Relic in any of your post seal that it's most unlikely you get anything from them anymore, and Imo they're 100% right looking at how to turn any piece of information you get from them. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Relic and Org need to update their banning policies15 Jun 2023, 10:32 AM Jump back to quoted post15 Jun 2023, 07:33 AMHannibal Tldr: You buy a product, they sell a product, they can take the product away from you at any time, they don't provide any info or reasonable appeal procedure. That's not professional. They should change it. Read the EULA, they sell you a license to use a product through a service company (Steam). They can revoke it anytime if they get evidence you're not complying with the rules they set (accordingly that those rules aren't illegal themselves). As it as been said before, Relic hasn't a history of blindness banning players so either Rosbone is playing fool by not acknowledging his own behavior either they may have various reasons and he's not sure which one of them triggered the ban. In any cases, with what he wrote around this forum, that's probably enough to trigger an end of the license contract, something probably related to defamation of Relic/Relic's employees that you, Rosbone, we, aren't enough versed into law to judge if valid or not but that their legal service/legal adviser most likely is. As per communicating of the reasons, Relic is fully entitled to not produce their evidences at will and only reserve them in case of legal action. AKA if Relic does so, and so the majority of major gaming companies, when banning players that's because legally it is way better for them to manage it that way. The appealing process is most likely an internal process and the case transferred to a 3rd party group/manager who'll review it from a neutral point of view and asses if the sanction is valid. It doesn't involve the player because what they asses is their decision making based on the information they had the moment it was taken. They do not seek for more information or to give more information. If the reviewer board valid the sanction, then the sanction is confirmed, if the board invalid it then the sanction is revoked. I'm not saying it 100% works like that at Relic, but this is the general process of appeal of sanction. If you want to know the reason behind the decision, then you must take legal action against them. In: COH3 Central
Thread: The console release is a fiasco ?15 Jun 2023, 06:12 AM Jump back to quoted post14 Jun 2023, 14:14 PMnigo From a console player: https://www.reddit.com/r/CompanyOfHeroes/comments/14960e7/console_is_dead/ The OP post and account have been deleted, you should definitely check what you're sharing and from who before posting :/ ----------- Console cross platforms is between consoles. Have you even watch a console player stream? The gameplay has nothing to do with computer gameplay. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Personalized Stat Tracking on cohdb!14 Jun 2023, 07:08 AM Wut there are 8 people who dl a game I played! I probably lost that game In: COH3 Central
Thread: Relic and Org need to update their banning policies14 Jun 2023, 06:59 AM Jump back to quoted post12 Jun 2023, 17:59 PMShadowLinkX37 I don't know how to explain it better than this honestly. You're staff, you should be held to a higher standard than the average person. The fact that being disresepctful to devs is blatantly in the rules, as well as something I personally have let slide for much too long is my fault. True. You failed as moderator to moderate Rosbone behavior here for a long time, he had since long nothing relevant to say on this game but still daily spam and spam this forum with non-sense comments. Moderation isn't only about moderating inappropriate content posted by people but also making sure things posted, even if not breaking any rule are relevant. I'm really just wondering why you're blasting us about this. I've explained it to you in PM and I've explained it above. You wanna blast relic over it fine, cause honestly I don't agree with their policy of not telling people about why they're banned either, but I've done my best to explain and understand. Companies will never tell you why (and if they do they are the exception) because it doesn't matter anymore once the action is taken. The psychological journey of the person impacted make it will never be rational enough to accept the true and will still and again contest it and find anything in the potential explanation to be a sign of persecution. This thread and your own reply is the perfect example of it. It's the same process when you fire someone, you tell him the bare minimum of why. It's the same process when you break your sentimental relationship by saying "It's me" etc... Even more when the person, such as Rosbone, went toxic in the "relationship". All of this has been studied and documented, here an example: DABDA In: COH3 Central
Thread: The console release is a fiasco ?6 Jun 2023, 11:45 AM Jump back to quoted post6 Jun 2023, 09:12 AMKatitof And the first new map coming is sheldt copy no one asked for lol. There is no valid COH iteration without Scheldt being maped day1. Jump back to quoted post6 Jun 2023, 10:54 AMFantomasas Meta was born out of broken technical state Nobody shaped it like a game design exercise, because half components weren't working correctly. This is why the blobs took over the game instantly: because they were the functional overtuned component. I am not playing the game, I played the Beta and tracking the updates. I am the MG spammer and since MGs were barely functional for beta/first two months - how could I even play the game. I want the heavy tank destroyers and firework-tanks (AVRE/Sturmtiger) to be present when I join. These "hero" units, when playing in an evenly matched 4vs4 game, become the game-within-the-game components and this is what made COH2 so fun. The minigame was usually taking down that Elefant or JT, or dodging enemy Sturmtiger shots. I will join someday. I still believe the game will be salvaged to the level that is that "objective" upgrade over COH2, but it was due for late Autumn before layoffs, now I think it will get there is 2024. 50/50 whether it redeems itself next year, or Sega scuttles everything. My fun tanks, more 4vs4 maps, people actually in matchmaking playing 4vs4, and general progress of balance/technical growing pains. If the general balance shifts to more lethality/micro, I would prefer that, but no real objections with beefier tanks/units compared to COH2. + the leaver punishment, the game is not worth my time when one out of 7 players can decide to ruin it, every single round, 10 rounds in a row, if they want. They buy it now, HMGs are kind of king of the battlefield at the moment although for the rest of your wish list you might be disappointed. In: COH3 Central
Thread: The console release is a fiasco ?6 Jun 2023, 08:47 AM Jump back to quoted post6 Jun 2023, 00:26 AMFantomasas The problem with COH3 is, that it isn't just some sharp corners that need brushing. It is the trainwreck that ends up going backwards. Take tank-balance for example: AT superblobs, mines triggered by sound, AT shots clipping on fences, superskillplanes, weird pathing, what are tank destroyers, only heavy destroyer in the game files somewhere never tested. The game is so broken you have multiple direction, technical and design failures all at the same time - sure it functions as a program, but it is a literal mess, don't even know how to start unraveling it. Saying that Relic was in some kind of design-checkmate is questionable. COH3 was supposed to be a slam-dunk, it had so many design lessons learned (only by community and ex-Relic), and many low-hanging QoL/Mechanics people asked for years. Couple that with 10 years of modern online gaming trends, visual progress, service monetization - and you have a formula that only needs that 8/10 execution. Nobody even gives a fuck about campaign, it reviewed to some absurd scores (I played COH1 campaigns while in school, rarely do I play SP in RTS). We're not playing the same game then. It's true that actual meta doesn't involve tank destroyer but they are more than capable to deliver what there for in the game. The game balance is ok at the moment and it's kind of sign of a good game design since it took 3 patches to come here. Yes some factions are more powerful, yes some units are more powerful, but that will be always the case, COH serie isn't a game you can perfectly balance out of the multitude aspects of it. It's a game that need regular balance patches to shake the meta at best. What piss people here is the lack of strong multiplayer ranking system and variety of map in it. I wouldn't even say lack of multiplayer since it exists in it's purest form, you can create a lobby and invite people to play with you and maps are available by the 100 in the workshop. In: COH3 Central
Thread: The console release is a fiasco ?5 Jun 2023, 06:24 AM Why would player retention be an objective for Relic if they don't implement retention assets? Coh3 has been sold as a single player game with an ersatz of multiplayer and you guys are gauging the game popularity based on multiplayer KPIs. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Relic is in trouble - 121 employees fired 29 May 2023, 10:13 AM Jump back to quoted post28 May 2023, 20:28 PMdonofsandiego I honestly couldn't care less about the sound design. It sounds fine to me. The game just developed a boring meta quickly and there are only two 4v4 maps. That's the long and short of it for me. 4vs4 and boring meta... I have a bad news for you In: COH3 Central
Thread: Relic is in trouble - 121 employees fired 28 May 2023, 20:25 PM I thought people dislike the game atm because of the lack of multiplayer content, not because the sound isn't as good as they expected it to be. In: COH3 Central